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throughout the fascist period in Italy. Mussolini admitted to the cruelty of
fascism in one of his speeches: "Fascism is no longer liberation but tyranny, no
longer the safeguard of the nation but the defense of private interests." 47
It was also possible to see such examples of violence in Franco's Spain.
Even at the very outset of the civil war, Franco's ruthless methods had attracted
attention. For instance, in a small mountain village north of Madrid, 18 people
were arrested for voting for the Popular Front. After questioning, 13 of these
were taken out of the village by lorry and killed by the side of the road. When
the fascists entered the small town of Loro del Rio with its population of 11,000
near Seville, they killed more than 300 people. Oppression took on a
particularly violent form in the cities. To such an extent that the number of
those killed is even today not known for certain. 48 Franco had hundreds of
thousands of his own people killed, even including the elderly, women and
children. The words of a member of the anti-Franco resistance in June 1936
describes the situation:
Thousands of people have been tortured, women who refused to turn
in their loved ones have been hung upside down, children have been
shot, and the mothers who witnessed the torture of their children have
gone mad… 49
Franco dragged Spain into a terrible civil war. Brother fought against
brother, and father against son. An average of 500 people died every day. Acts
of violence, slaughter, mass torture, and killings went on without end. The
Spanish Civil War left some 600,000 dead in its wake.
Hitler and Mussolini used Spain as a laboratory, a testing-ground for
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new troops and weapons. The most terrible example of this was a village that
Franco presented to Hitler as a gift in return for his assistance. On the morning
of May 5, 1937, the people of the village of Guernica were wiped out by the
huge bomber planes manufactured by Nazi technology. Franco had left the
little village as an experiment for Nazi planes. 51

Fascism's Policy of Conquest

Another feature without which fascism cannot survive is its policy of
expansion by conquering other countries. The basis of this policy of conquest
is racism, and the concept of "the struggle for survival between the races," a
legacy of Darwinism. Fascist states believe that in order to develop as a nation,
they have to conquer weaker nations, and grow by absorbing them.